The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is rapidly melting. Scientists now have evidence for when it started and why

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1. 

   In all seriousness, this is terrifying.

2. Wow 1940s?
   [By analyzing marine sediment cores extracted from beneath the ocean floor, researchers found the glacier began to significantly retreat in the 1940s, likely kicked off by a very strong El Nino event — a natural climate fluctuation which tends to have a warming impact.
   Since then, the glacier has been unable to recover, which may reflect the increasing impact of human-caused global warming, according to the report.]